Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

Functional programming with Java Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.